Microsoft Imagine is a great place if you like learning or teaching development. The projects vary and the tutorials take you from start to finish. Recently three new coding kits were released. What I though cool is that two are Project Spark based and the other Kudo. In short, making it really easy…

So this isn't really hardware, but it's hardware'ish and too cool to keep in the story queue too long.. Maker.jsMaker.js, a Microsoft Garage project, is a JavaScript library for creating and sharing modular line drawings for CNC and laser cutters. Maker.js creates line drawings for two dimensional…

Today's post isn't about directly about code, but it's about how, in the very near future you'll be able to code up some seriously cool and fun stuff for the Xbox One, very cheaply (hard to be cheaper than free... Big Xbox One News for Unity DevelopersWe have good news to share with you today!…

Today's Windows Wednesday project by Ricky Brundritt, is about one of our favorite things Augmented Reality. And the fact we can also include using the Bing SDK and Windows 8.1 AND something that would be awesome on the Surface, well..! Augmented Reality with Bing Maps in a Windows Store AppIn this…

In July we highlighted the the beta of the Nokia Imagine SDK, Imaging images with the Nokia Imaging SDK. This past week the v1 SDK was released, which makes this is a good time to take another look at it... Nokia Imaging SDK 1.0: Power tools for Windows Phone developersToday [November 13th, 2013] at…

Today's project is one of those libraries that you might not know you need until you see it. Or it has parts you've invented yourself, but only so far as you needed them to solve a specific problem. When you see Mehdi Khalili's project you'll see what I mean... Humanizer hit V1Humanizer is a small…

Today's Hardware Friday projects take us back to the HID world that's opened up in Windows 8.1. The first project by Bruno Capuano (aka El Bruno), shows how quickly you can take advantage of, and how easy it is, HID... [#HDI] HowTo: List #HID devices connected in Windows 8.1[Machine translated]…

Today's project is one of those kinds that I can't seem to get enough off, a bot/AI/Life kind of project. The thought of creating something that simulates life, no matter how simple, draws me in and seems to eat more hours of my life than I'm really able to admit... Maybe the world is beyond our…

Did you catch the Visual Studio 2013 Launch? (If you missed, it you can see it here, Visual Studio 2013 Launch). Did you see all the cool projects used in the demos? The facial recognition, Visitors, Staff, Travel apps? Wish you could get the source for those projects? Wish no more... MyCompany demo…